Sentences with phrase «learning advocates believe»

Service - learning advocates believe that students learn more, and more purposefully, by applying their classroom knowledge to help their communities.

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I'm a major advocate of bootstrapping — I believe the lessons learned along the way are priceless, and owing 100 percent of your business is well worth the struggles and challenges.

From Ryan Lizza's enlightening profile in The New Yorker, I learned that Michele Bachmann's influences include spiritual and political mentors who preach the literal «inerrancy» of the Bible, who warn Christians to be suspicious of ideas that come from non-Christians, who believe homosexuality is an «abomination,» who portray the pre-Civil War South as a pretty nice place for slaves and who advocate «Dominionism,» the view that Christians and only Christians should preside over earthly institutions.

Jennifer is a passionate advocate of self - directed learning, inquiry, and authentic assessments, and she believes the key to transforming education is to sharpen the focus on student voice and choice in the classroom.

Dr. Starr is a strong advocate for educators and school staff and believes the best way to improve education is to improve teaching and learning for every student.

Advocates on one side believe teachers should prepare for their classroom careers in the traditional way: attending schools of education where they learn a lot about teaching technique (but often spend too little time learning academic content).

Though perhaps there are advocates of «nationalizing» the curriculum, there are others who believe that a common curriculum — whether schoolwide, districtwide, statewide, or nationwide — is, as E.D. Hirsch has shown time and time again, better for student learning, especially those students who do not get the background knowledge needed for further learning at home.

Advocates of OER and personalized learning typically believe that they are increasing efficiency, but they tend to underestimate the breadth of knowledge necessary for true comprehension.

While education advocates are focused on closing achievement gaps and preparing every student for success, Michigan Assessment Consortium members believe neither will be possible if the education system perpetuates current assessment practices, which focus more on documenting success or failure than on supporting learning.

The work included advocating for practices we believed were central to improving teaching and learning, including data analysis to identify who was learning (and not) and the importance of a knowledge - rich curriculum for all kids.

What's more, advocates believe that decisions over those individualized education plans were further «delayed, or second - guessed» by district bureaucracy, and that extensive data collection mandates held up evaluations or services such as classroom aides for children with learning disabilities.

Advocates of the flipped model believe that having students spend class time listening to a lecture may not be the best way for them to learn difficult topics.

We believe that when emphasis on assessment FOR learning is actively and systematically advocated and supported in a school or district, then positive test results can follow.

I am not an unreflective advocate of technology — I am in favour of schools setting behaviour policies around uses of mobile devices and, while I believe there are some great learning tools, others are gimmicky or have no impact either on learning or workload.

Each of the teachers mentored, advocated for and championed three students who needed an educator in their lives who believes in them and their capacity for learning and success.

While the Alliance for School Choice focuses on those three reforms in particular, advocates also believe that states should eliminate barriers preventing the growth of high - quality charter schools, virtual schools, online learning options, and home schooling.

While the AFC Growth Fund focuses primarily on those avenues to a higher quality education, advocates also believe that states should eliminate all barriers preventing the growth of high - quality private and charter schools, virtual schools, online learning options, and home schooling.

Advocates believe that it is time for more rigorous educational standards, that our current education system is outmoded, and that all students in the US should be taught by and expected to learn by the same standards.

Advocates will be especially interested in learning what Christine believes was the strategic change in tactics that allowed her group to get Greyhound racing banned first in Massachusetts, and elsewhere.

In this episode of Max A Pooch's Awesome Animal Advocates learn from Debra how much like us these beings really are and why she believes her book is, «An invitation, a declaration, and a call to action, on behalf of all captive chimpanzees.»

Instead of advocating the methods some other experts do, such as dominance theory or establishing yourself as pack leader, Marta believes that establishing yourself as an encouraging guide — or coach — to your pet works better after learning to communicate with them intuitively.